cant find a library though it is installed

lemon09 · 09-17-2011, 08:51 PM

hello..........

I recently installed
liblua
in my mandriva machine. But whenever i try to use the library by

Code:

gcc file_name.c -llua

it displays the message

Code:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llua                                                                                    
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

liblua is installed in /usr/lib/
So i set the PATH variable to the above mentioned directory. and still I find no luck!!!!

Please help me in locating the library

John VV · 09-17-2011, 09:29 PM

are you 100% sure that /usr/lib/liblua is the files name
and not "liblua.so.5.1"

and is the lua devel rpm installed
you will not need the header for linking but the packageconfig *.pc file would help

and on fedora - fedora what 14 or 15 ( a guess on that )
how did you install gcc ?
the recommended

Code:

su -
yum groupinstall " Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

see

Code:

yum grouplist

knudfl · 09-18-2011, 04:45 AM

# 2 : Mandriva : No yum !

# 1 : The required package is 'liblua-devel'

# urpmi liblua-devel

At compile time, lib<name>.so is used.
Development packages, (lib)<name>-devel, provides :
Headers, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/<name>.pc, lib<name>.so,
where lib<name>.so is a link to the version, you want to use at run time.

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